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Rye Brook, NY (August 31, 2016) – Team In Training. Light The Night. Man & Woman of the Year. Student Series. Leukemia Cup Regatta. More than 13 million participants in these popular fundraising campaigns last year alone helped The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) invest more than $1 billion since our founding, in research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures for blood cancer patients.
For Blood C...

Rye Brook, NY (August 5, 2016) - Subaru of America and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) wrapped up their June initiative, Subaru Loves to Care, which literally brought warmth and hope to thousands of patients fighting cancer across the country.
The campaign, an extension of Subaru’s Love Promise, helped communities come together to make an incredible impact. Fifty four LLS chapters across the count...

Rye Brook, NY (July 6, 2016) – What happens when community leaders across the country devote 10 weeks of their time and energy to raise funds to find cures for cancer? Records are broken. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) unique Man & Woman of the Year national campaign winners raised a record-breaking combined total of more than $800,000 for LLS’s goal to find cures for blood cancers and ens...

Rye Brook, N.Y. (June 28, 2016) – Real estate developer Peter Brock will become chair of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) national board of directors effective July 1, 2016. His term will run through June 30, 2018. He has served as the board’s secretary/treasurer since July 1, 2015.
Brock has decades of experience in developing commercial real estate throughout the U.S. He is currently a partner i...

Rye Brook, N.Y. (June 28, 2016) – Renzo Canetta, M.D., former vice president of Oncology Global Clinical Research and of Global Regulatory Oncology Research Policy at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), has been elected to the national board of directors of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), effective July 1, 2016. His term will run through June 30, 2019 and is subject to renewal.
Dr. Canetta has more than ...

Rye Brook, N.Y. (June 28, 2016) – Kathleen Meriwether, Americas Life Sciences Leader for Ernst & Young LLP’s (EY) Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services practice, has been elected to the national board of directors of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), effective July 1, 2016. Her term will run through June 30, 2019 and is subject to renewal.
Meriwether, specializes in assisting health sciences ...

Rye Brook, NY; Washington, DC – June 20, 2016 - The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and the American Society of Hematology (ASH) are teaming up to raise awareness and provide education about the need for new treatments for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), one of the most deadly blood cancers that has not seen a change in the standard of care for more than 40 years.
AML is a complex group of approximately 20 d...

Rye Brook, NY, June 1, 2016 – While divisiveness rules many issues, there is strong agreement among Americans of different political persuasions when it comes to investing in the fight against cancer. According to a new survey, Finding Cancer Cures, there is widespread support for the Moonshot to End Cancer initiative President Obama launched this year, as 82 percent of Americans polled want the next presiden...

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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world's largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world and provides free information and support services.